Elaine Stritch Quotes

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

Isn't death the boundary we need?

Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.

It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.

Life is the longest death in California.

You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies. I've seen millions of them. I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember

Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.

Death is the ultimate negative.

Dying isn’t like living; it requires no effort at all.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.